I have been excitedly anticipating the season finale of The Walking Dead for the past week. I was expecting a pretty gruesome and jaw lacerating ending to season 3 (pun intended) and when finally I saw the cold opening, I was glued to the computer monitor as I have ever been in my life.
Talking to a friend three days ago about the impending finale, I told him I was expecting, although hoping to be wrong, that Michonne would be killed. Thankfully, I was wrong. Andrea committed suicide before the bite of Milton would turn her into a walker, who was stabbed by the Governor for refusing to kill Andrea and was eventually turned to a walker. Andrea had always hoped to end the bloodshed and worked to no avail to fulfill such ends. In her quest to keep the peace, and avoid any more needless deaths than has already happened, she in effect contributed to the deaths of many more people, among which are the raiding team assembled by the Governor to kill the residents of the abandoned prison, all but three survived. The one kid of the Governor's raiding team who somehow strayed into the group of Hershel and Carl was shot point blank by Carl.
Carl is increasingly becoming a cold person. He blames Rick for being indecisive and as such, allowed Merle to be killed by the Governor. In his mind, if Rick had killed the Governor when they met in the barn, Merle could have been saved. At the end of the show, when the surviving residents of Woodbury were brought to the prison as part of the group, Carl showed his displeasure at such happening. Clearly he was not happy at all to add more people into the group.
After murdering his raiding team for chickening out from the prison assault, the Governor takes off with his two remaining loyalist henchmen. Season 4 will definitely open with the Governor at a prominent light. To settle once and for all the feud between Rick and the Governor, the prison survivors decides to take the fight to Woodbury, Maggie opposes such move and but Rick decides to go for it. Maggie and Glenn opts to remain in the prison. In the end, Rick, Michonne and Daryl make the go for Woodbury. Along the way, they encounter the massacred remains of the raiding team and find one survivor who accompany them to Woodbury. After a short fire-fight, Rick's group surrenders and through the remaining survivor, convinces the two defenders (who were previous residents of the prison) to allow them in where they find Andrea in one of the rooms dying from a walker bite. Andrea decides to take her life as Michonne holds her.
Andrea's naivety cost her dearly for it eventually contributed to her death and that of Milton not to mention a dozen men and women massacred by the Governor for backing out of the fight in the prison. The Governor showed that early on, he was nothing but motivated by a selfish mission to find a cure for his kid and Woodbury was mere cover to carry out his plan successfully. He never really cared about the other people in Woodbury. His penchant for murder and his obsession with control showed his dictatorial bent guised as a humanitarian exterior displays.
Great finale for a great show!
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